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Anyone planning on turning down a UPenn offer for American?

I second the motion to turn this into a profile-type thread. That sort of data collection would be tremendously useful for both current and future applicants. edit: nevermind, someone just created a new thread for that purpose!

I mean, it's also definitely possible that MAPSS could lead to an offer better (in terms of rank) than Penn. They give a list of funded PS Ph.D. offers their Class of 2012 received: "Of the 18 candidates we supported in 2012, 16 (89%) have offers from: Chicago (4), Brown, North Carolina, Harvard, NYU, Yale, Texas, Georgetown, UC-Berkeley, George Washington, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Toronto, Michigan, UC-Los Angeles, Washington-Seattle, Notre-Dame, Wisconsin, Minnesota, McGill, Indiana, Temple, Florida, SUNY-Binghamton, UC-Santa Cruz, UC-Santa Barbara, Southern California, York, Michigan State." http://mapss.uchicago.edu/the_ma/why_mapss/our_outcomes/phd_placements Something like half of those programs are equally or lower ranked than Penn, and the rest higher. So yeah, I guess it might be a gamble but less so given that you have full funding!

I was offered half-tuition at MAPSS rather than full, so it's not really an option for me, but full would have made it slightly more enticing in my case as well. I think it'd be a bit of a gamble to take out loans for a year over funded offers, simply based on the possibility that you might get a few offers from better schools next time around. It would be another thing if an MAPSS degree was a guarantor of securing better offers, but my impression, based on other threads about it, is that it is not. Also, didn't you mention earlier that you really liked BU's department? Penn has placed a few Ph.Ds in their PS department in (TT? not sure) positions over the last couple of years.

For anyone still curious, I just received notification from UChicago about rejection from PhD/acceptance to MAPSS.

My guess (absolutely a guess) is that they will start with MAPSS acceptances next. Or at least it seems plausible with all the recent acceptances/PhD rejects being for CIR.

Congrats!

My status hasn't changed.

Thanks! I'm an Americanist.

Hey all, I can claim the Georgetown admit. I got the e-mail around 3:30pm today (and, somewhat to my embarassment, missed a phone call from my POI). I was very surprised that the news came on a Saturday as well!

Does anyone have any thoughts on what the right timing for creating a rejected offers thread might be? My rational side tells me it's way too early for anyone to have made firm decisions, but my irrational side tells me I really want to know whether there's any chance of me getting off the waitlist at UPenn. Maybe people waitlisted elsewhere are having similar thoughts? Or, I'm just a ridiculous human being.

Yeah, supposedly. Although someone mentioned that at the very latest they would have all remaining answers out by the beginning of next week.

I also do not have a master's and have not heard back. I guess the OP's hypothesis is that not having a master's would make one more likely to be under consideration for MAPSS/CIR?

LTL here as well--wow! Thanks for calling, but this seems hard to believe. Is there any precedent for Chicago spreading out their acceptances over this length of time? Unless of course by "answers" she just means rejections/acceptances to CIR/MAPSS.